Written in Stone: Reading the Rocks of the Great Ocean Road by Philomena Manifold
$55.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A celebration of the unique coastline of the Great Ocean Road and the deep time that has shaped it. Written in Stone takes the reader from the ochre cliffs of Torquay where 25 million year old fossils can be found, past the tip of Cape Otway where Gondwanan rivers have preserved dinosaur bones and on to ...Show more
The Fires Next Time: Understanding Australia's Black Summer by Peter Christoff
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Following a three-year drought and during the hottest and driest year on record, a flume of scorching air set the Australian continent aflame. Australia's Black Summer fires were unprecedented. Over six months in 2019-20 they burned more than ten million hectares of Australia's southern and eastern fore ...Show more
Curious Voyages - A Collection of Astoundingly True Tales by Andrew Murray (Illustrator)
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Over thousands of years the world was wide with wind-powered boats, one of man's most beautiful constructions, and sailors had to struggle in the age-old game of Man vs Sea. This collection of tales is not a history of sail, it's a voyage through centuries of curious sailing adventures.
Old Vintage Melbourne, 1960-1990 by Chris Macheras
$55.00 AUD
Category: Australian
A sequel to Old Vintage Melbourne, this collection invites you again to turn back time and revisit the diverse past of the much-loved city of Melbourne. This captivating compilation of photographs taken between 1960 and 1990 provides a fascinating glimpse of a time that is familiar and yet different, w ...Show more
The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It; Quarterly Essay 92 by Alan Kohler
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian
What caused Australia's housing crisis - and how we might fix it One of the great mysteries of Australian life is that a land of sweeping plains, with one of the lowest population densities on the planet, has a shortage of land for houses. As a result, Sydney's median house price is the second most exp ...Show more
Yeah, Nah!: A celebration of life and the words that make us who we are by William McInnes
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Join bestselling Australian storyteller William McInnes as he reflects on Australia's way of life and gives us his own take on our colourful and colloquial way with words. Whether we are bunging it on or behaving like a drongo, Australians have a turn of phrase for every situation that helps us. Our lin ...Show more
Corners of Melbourne by Robyn Annear
$35.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Melbourne's favourite historian, as seen in the acclaimed documentary, The Lost City of Melbourne, takes us on an unorthodox tour of the city's streets and corners, telling stories about the events and people that have made these the most interesting places to be.What better defines a city than its stre ...Show more
Stories That Want To Be Told: The Long Lede Anthology by Judith Neilson Institute
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Passion pieces from the next generation of Australian longform journalists. Nine Australian writers, mentored by nine experienced Australian journalists, developed stories that they knew needed to be shared. With direction from Amanda Hooton of GW, Claire Keenan explores Catholicism in rural Australia, ...Show more
Killing for Country: A Family Story by David Marr
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars. David Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal Native Police in the bloodiest years on the frontier. Killing for Country is the result - a soul-searching Australian history. This is a richly detailed sa ...Show more
Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture by Bruce Pascoe
$27.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests t ...Show more
Cradle by Rob Blakers (Editor); Chris Bell (Photographer); Grant Dixon (Photographer)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian
Photos by Chris Bell, Rob Blakers, Grant Dixon, Peter Dombrovskis, Dennis Harding and others. Informative text by Professor Jamie Kirkpatrick.